9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker

Bible Readings
Isaiah 61:1-43; Psalm 126
John 1:6-8, 19-28

9:30am All Age Worship with Communion & BBQ
Rev. Jonathan Barker

Bible Readings
Isaiah 40:1-8; Psalm 85:1-2,8-13
Mark 1:1-8

Greetings to the Gungahlin Uniting community

This coming Sunday is the Second Sunday of Advent and our theme is JOY. In the introduction to “God with Us – Reflections for Advent – 2017” it says “JOY is not the frothy delight of escapism, but the serene joy of those who can sail over the seas of turbulent times with tranquillity.” Jesus’ humble birth occurred in turbulent times, but the event prompted angels to burst into song. May we be moved to sing joyously about the alternative way of God coming among us to heal a broken world.

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9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker & Jenny Batt

Bible Readings
Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 80:1-7,17-19
Mark 13: 24-37

Greetings to the Gungahlin Uniting community

This coming Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent and our theme is HOPE. In the foreword to our “Reflections for Advent” it says “HOPE is not the escapist hope of returning to an imagined better past, but the living hope of a new future where equity and justice flower”. The birth of Jesus signifies that God’s new future for all humanity is about to be “born” – good cause to shout “Alleluia!”

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9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker

Bible Readings
Ezekiel 34:11-16,20-24; Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46

Greetings to the Gungahlin Uniting community

This coming Sunday reminds us that we celebrate endings (e.g. the Christian year) as we get ready to celebrate beginnings (Advent and the Birth of Jesus). This Sunday is known as “Christ the King” Sunday – when we recall the good news that Jesus reigns in our hearts and in the world as the servant king. No better way than to finish the “year” with another parable (the separation of the sheep and goats) where the nations are called to account to a God of love.

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9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker

Bible Readings
Judges 4:1-7; Psalm 123
Matthew 25:14-30

“For everyone who has will be given more, and they will have enough and to spare; and everyone who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
Matthew 25:29

WELL DONE GOOD, AND FAITHFUL SERVANT

Today’s parable of the talents again appears to turn things upside down. Being servants does not bring privilege, status or anything to glory in. Being servants means having responsibility. Those who do not share what they have been entrusted with are harshly admonished.

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